962 Men, 89 Women Get Degrees At Annapolis

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May 27, 1993

ANNAPOLIS, MD. — The Naval Academy awarded degrees Wednesday to more than 1,000 midshipmen, sending them to duty in a Navy reeling from the Tailhook scandal and struggling to cope with cutbacks. ''You will be challenged in ways we cannot imagine today,'' said Rear Adm. Thomas P. Lynch, the academy's superintendent. Lynch told graduates they enter the military at a time of the ''most significant downsizing'' since the end of the Vietnam War. Talk of scandal and cutbacks did not diminish the enthusiasm of the 962 men and 89 women graduates, who ended their four years at the academy by flinging their caps in the air.